pine
pine is probably the most "user-friendly" of the
UNIX based Email programs. It has an excellent menu and help
system and also has a MIME attachments feature that allows you to
send binary files along with your Email message. For further
information see the following:
Starting pine
Sending messages via pine
Reading messages via pine
Saving messages via pine
Address Book
Starting pine
In order to start pine, type pine at the rohan% prompt and the pine main menu will appear:
PINE 3.91 MAIN MENU Folder: INBOX 10 Messages
? HELP - Get help using Pine
C COMPOSE MESSAGE - Compose and send a message
I FOLDER INDEX - View messages in current folder
L FOLDER LIST - Select a folder to view
A ADDRESS BOOK - Update address book
S SETUP - Configure or update Pine
Q QUIT - Exit the Pine program
Copyright 1989-1994. PINE is a trademark of the University of Washington
? Help P PrevCmd R RelNotes
O OTHER CMDS L [ListFldrs] N NextCmd K KBlock
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Sending messages via pine
To send a message via pine, type C and a COMPOSE MESSAGE screen appears:
PINE 3.91 COMPOSE MESSAGE Folder: INBOX 10 Messages
To :
Cc :
Attchmnt:
Subject :
----- Message Text -----
^G Get Help ^X Send ^R Rich Hdr ^Y PrvPg/Top ^K Cut Line ^O Postpone
^C Cancel ^D Del Char ^J Attach ^V NxtPg/End ^U UnDel Line^T To AddrBk
At the top of the new message are the "header" lines:
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To: The Email address of the person to whom you are sending the message.
Cc: Carbon Copy. The Email address of a person to whom you would like to send a copy of the message.
Attchmnt: You can type the path and name of a binary file that you would like to send along with your message.
Subject: This line is where you type the subject of your message
After the header is a space to type your message. Your signature (if you have one) will automatically be inserted at the end of your message.
At the bottom of the screen is a menu containing commands you can use
while composing your message. The most frequently used commands are:
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^g - Brings up the pine help screen
^c - Cancels and erases the message
^x - The "exit" or "send" command
^o - Postpones the message
^t - Adds the recipients Email address to your address book
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Reading messages via pine
To check your incoming messages via pine, press I and your "INBOX" will appear:
PINE 3.91 FOLDER INDEX Folder: INBOX Message 1 of 27
+ A 1 Sep 25 William Kennedy (1,051) Re: Need Help!
+ D 2 Sep 26 Kathleen Stewart (1,009) Cold coffee - JAVA
+ 3 Sep 31 Stacy Robbins (1,365) Let's try this again
D 4 Oct 1 George Johnson (880) site description
5 Oct 1 Carol Jones (1,016) Network Problems
+ A 6 Oct 3 William Kennedy (1,151) Re: Need Help!
+ A 7 Oct 4 Christy Phillips (1,113) Re: Howdy!!
8 Oct 4 Joshua Martinez (4,478) 1997 Convention
+ A 9 Oct 4 Samantha Peters (1,156) Great Website!!
+ A 10 Oct 5 William Kennedy (1,230) Re: Need Help!
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? Help M Main Menu P PrevMsg - PrevPage D Delete R Reply
O OTHER CMDS V [ViewMsg] N NextMsg Spc NextPage U Undelete F Forward
When the INBOX menu pops up, the top message will be highlighted. To move to another message, use the following commands:
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space bar - Used to view the next screen, if you have more than 19 messages in the folder.
- - Used to go back to the previous page of messages.
up and down arrow keys - Used to activate a new message.
j + message number - Used to "jump" to a specified message.
To read a message, make sure it is highlighted, and then press enter or return.
At the bottom of the screen is a menu of commands to use while reading your messages. These commands can either be used when you are reading a message, or when a message is highlighted in the message menu. The most commonly used commands are:
| P - | View the Previous message |
N - | View the Next message |
| D - | Delete the current message |
U - | Undelete the current message |
| R - | Reply to the current message |
F - | Forward the current message |
| S - | Save the current message to a file |
Y - | Print the current message |
| T - | Save e-mail address to address book |
M - | Go to the Main Menu |
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Saving messages via pine
pine creates a folder in your account called "Mail". All the messages you save are kept there. You can use the L command to list these folders at any time.
The default folders that should be located in your account are:
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INBOX - contains your incoming messages
sent-mail - contains every message you have ever sent
saved-messages - contains every message you have ever saved
You can use the right and left arrow keys to move between your folders. When the appropriate folder is highlighted, press enter or return to view the contents of the folder.
Each folder has a similar layout to the INBOX folder and can be traversed in the same way.
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Address Book
The Address Book contains nicknames that you create for people or groups of people to whom you frequently send e-mail messages.
To access the Address Book, go to the main menu and press ^T. A list of all the "nicknames" you have created along with the "full" name of the person and their Email address appears on your screen.
In order to use one of these nicknames you can either use the up and down arrow keys to move to the nickname you want to use and then press c to compose a message to that person, or you can simply type the nickname in the To: field in the header of your message.
To add someone to the list, press A.
To remove someone from the list, highlight their name and press D to delete the nickname.
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